Below is some information from The Fathering Project for both sons and daughters, which you may be interested in.

 

 

SPRING FAIR
SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2016 – 11am to 4pm

The much-loved Joeys Spring Fair is just around the corner!

Join us on Sunday 13 November for a great day out. The fair will commence at 11am after the family mass.

We all know the Spring Fair would not be a success without our enormous contingent of amazing volunteers. Please take a moment to read through this email and see if there’s somewhere you can help out. Once again we thank you and appreciate your ongoing support.

 

VOLUNTEER SIGN UP – QUICK LINKS

Country Stall

Bottle Tombola – Year 12

Secondhand Uniform Shop

Ticket Box – Main

Ticket Box – Kids Corner

SJC Foundation and Joeys Cookbook Sales

Kindifarm

Ladies Auxiliary – High Tea

Italian Food Stall

Lebanese Food Stall

Asian Food Stall

White Elephant – Year 7

Cake Stall – Year 9

Chocolate Wheel – Year 10

Fashion Parade – Year 11

 

CAKE STALL – Year 9

This year the cake stall will be running the inaugural ‘Great Joeys Bake Off’ themed cake competition.

It will be a Joeys–themed cake competition and the winner will not the best tasting cake (as we need to sell the cakes later) but the most creative/original Joeys-themed cake. Examples might include a cake in the shape/colours of a College blazer, a College rugby ball cake or a cake in the shape of one of the College buildings.

The competition is open to the whole school community and competition cakes must be delivered to the cake stall on the day of the Spring Fair by 11.30am.

Cakes will be sold after the midday judging.

DONATING A CAKE? All bakers donating cakes are asked to use either the boxes supplied by Year 9 or cardboard/paper plates with a plastic wrap cover. Please note: Tupperware and other storage containers are not preferred as it is difficult to return them.

Please include a list of ingredients with your baking for us to display.

We also encourage all Christmas cake bakers to get cooking as these cakes are extremely popular.

ENQUIRIES: Genevieve Scarf genevieve.j.scarf@gmail.com

VOLUNTEER: Cake Stall – Year 9

 

RIDES

Get ready for extreme activity!

This year we will have dodgem cars, a shooting gallery, a giant slide plus an exciting new ride. We will have a dedicated kids area with tea-cups, jumping castles and much more.

Get in quick and buy your ride bands at the online Joeys shop.

Pre-purchase your ride bands online for $30 or purchase on the day for $35.

Individual ride tickets sold on the day for $5.00 each

Please note: Collect your pre-ordered ride bands from the ride ticket tent located opposite the Br Emilian Hall. The mobile number you provided on the online purchase order will be required to collect your ride band. Ride bands will no longer be collected from Boarding Coordinators as in previous years.

 

WHITE ELEPHANT

It is spring cleaning time again, so gather your unwanted treasures and come on down.

We are seeking donations of second-hand clothing, toys, puzzles, games, sporting goods, household goods, bric-a-brac and books. Please no textbooks, magazines or encyclopaedias.  Due to health reasons we cannot accept soft toys of any kind, knives or any electrical goods.

If would also assist if you could separate women and men’s clothing.

WHITE ELEPHANT DROP OFF is next to the Joeys Uniform Shop (opposite the Music Centre).

WHITE ELEPHANT DROP OFF TIMES (please do not drop off items outside these dates/times).

Term 4

Date		Time		Note
Friday 21 Oct		3.30-5.00pm
Saturday 22 Oct		9.00-11am		Collection cut-off for small items
Friday 11 Nov		3.30-5pm		Open for collection of large furniture items

 

ENQUIRIES: Peter Anderson, email peter@anderson.sydney or mobile 0412 281 133

VOLUNTEER: White Elephant

 

LADIES AUXILIARY STALL – HIGH TEA

We are hoping Year 12 mums will join us again this year to lend a hand and a friendly smile at high tea in the Farrell Auditorium.

Last year the 30 high tea tables were constantly full, with things extremely busy from 12-3pm. To ensure another high tea success we are in need of a large number of helpers on the day for food prep, serving and clearing.

Can you donate baked goods or pretty teapots and tea-cups?

We would love any home-baked small items, scones, sandwich fillings, sweets and savouries for the tiered trays. We are also looking for pretty teapots and tea-cups for use on the day.

Baked goods, teapots and teacups can be dropped off to Joeys on Saturday 12 November or on the day of the fair.

Please email sjclaux@joeys.org if you can help in any way!

 

ENQUIRIES: Hilary Bokeyar email pbokeyar@bigpond.net.au or telephone 0416 155 843; or Helen Ross on telephone 9144 1891.

VOLUNTEER: Ladies Auxiliary – High Tea

 

 

COUNTRY PARENTS STALL

Always popular at the Spring Fair is the local produce from our rural community. We are looking for contributions of handmade or commercially available relishes, pickles, cordials, chutneys, olive oils, wine, liquor, coffee, honey and cheeses as well as farm-grown fruit and/or vegetables, farm-grown meat, chicken or eggs. In fact, anything showcasing our country heritage that could be displayed or sold would be gratefully accepted. If you can’t grow it, perhaps you can make it, e.g. fruit cakes, preserves, jams or biscuits using Aussie-grown produce.

ENQUIRIES: If you can help by donating, organising, volunteering to help in the Country Parents Stall, or would like to be a contact point for other regional/country parents in your area, contact Kate Bokenham on email katebokenham@bigpond.com or mobile 0488 682 922; or Flick Keady on email keadys@bigpond.com or mobile 0438 298 037.

VOLUNTEER: Country Stall

 

BASKETBALL ENTERTAINMENT

Fancy yourself as another LeBron James…Steph Curry…Michael Jordan?  Well, head on down to the outdoor courts and sink some hoops in the Great Joeys Basketball Shoot-Out and the Joeys Basketball 3-on-3 competition!

Shoot-out: Players will line up at the free throw line in a sudden death, last-man-standing competition to find the sharpest shooter at Joeys. There will be great prizes for the winners of each round before round winners play-off for super prizes and major bragging rights. Rounds will start each half-hour on the half-hour

You may enter as many times as you like throughout the day – each entry costs a gold coin. Turn up and enter at least 15 minutes before you would like to play.

3-on-3: Organise your team now for this knock-out competition which will have great prizes up for grabs. Teams need at least three players and will be allocated a mystery fourth player!

3-on-3 teams must enter in advance. The entry fee is $5 per team, payable on the day of the fair. Enter by either emailing michmcd@tpg.com.au or registering at the basketball BBQ at Saturday home games. To enter you must provide the team name, player names and a contact telephone number.

Games will be played through the day so you need to check the schedule on the basketball courts on the day of the fair to get your playing times.

 

ENQUIRIES AND 3-ON-3 ENTRIES: Michelle McDowd michmcd@tpg.com.au

 

This email was sent on behalf of the SJC Spring Fair Committee

Liz Phillips

Jodie Murray

Anthony Harper

Donna Digby

Kirsten Castorina

Renee Daspromonte

 

Dear Families,

You are warmly invited to attend the St Joseph’s College All Ensembles Music Concert on Friday 4 November at 7pm in the Br Emilian Hall.

The night will feature performances from the College’s music ensembles including the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Stage Band, Big Band, Wind Ensemble, Collegium Vocale, Chamber Strings, Year 7 String Ensemble, Jazz Improvisation Ensemble, Sor Guitar, Emmanuel Guitar, Hendrix Guitar and Rodrigues Guitar Ensembles, Kondo and Zappa Percussion Ensembles, Year 7 Concert Band Blue and Year 7 Concert Band Cerise, Rock Band (8) and Rock Band (10).

Please see the attached invitation for details. This is not a ticketed event.

For further information please contact Robyn Ventura at the Brother Louis Music Centre on telephone 9816 0875 or email rventura@joeys.org.

We hope you will be able to join us for this wonderful evening of music.

Br Louis Music Centre

St Joseph’s College

Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope that you are having a great school holiday with your son and that he is ready to return for the final 9 weeks of the year.

Return to school
Boarders are due back by 8:00pm on Monday 10 October. Dorms will be open from around lunch time on that day.
Day students are due back by 8:00am on Tuesday 11 October.

Day student departure times
A reminder to enter your son’s departure times for next week into the portal please. I would greatly appreciate this as it will avoid me having to enter them manually into the portal for you next week.

Haircuts
Please ensure that your son returns to school with a haircut which is neat and tidy and of a style which meets College guidelines.

New leave system – Boardingware
This term we will use the Boardingware system for all medical appointments (all students), all dinner leave and overnight leave (boarding students). For dinner leave and overnight leave, the boys can enter all the details themselves in the system, you just need to approve the request when you get an email notification. For those parents who haven’t already started using the system, I will re-send the email which will come from “Boardingware” later today which will allow you to very quickly set up your account.

Year 9 Dinner
The Year 9 Dinner is being held on Saturday 22 October.  RSVP date is 11 October (next week). Bookings for the dinner can be made through the Joeys online shop or by completing and returning the booking form on the invitation you would have received from Rose Unwin last term. Attendance for the boys is compulsory but it would be great to see you all there.

I look forward to seeing your sons back next week, and hopefully many of you at the Year 9 dinner the following week.

Regards,

Mick

From child soldier to refugee lawyer: Listen to Deng Thiak Adut’s inspiring journey

In conversation with biographer Ben McKelvey

 

When: Friday 28 October 2016

Where: Resources Centre

Time: 7.30am

RSVP:Click here

We are thrilled to announce Deng Thiak Adut and his biographer Ben McKelvey will be SJC’s Term 4 Books and Blokes speakers. We had the great privilege of meeting Mr Deng Adut last year when he visited Joeys and spoke to the boys at assembly. It was a remarkable speech and left all who were in attendance in awe of what he has overcome and how much he has achieved.

Deng’s incredible story has inspired millions of people around the world. The WSU YouTube clip, which features his story, has attracted more than two million views.

Deng came to Australia as a refugee at the age of 14, assisted by Marist Youth Care in Blacktown. After being taken away from his family when he was six-years-old, he lived as a child soldier in Sudan. He had never attended school, yet after arriving in Australia, Deng taught himself to read and write and put himself through law school.

Deng now works as a human rights lawyer and is committed to making a positive difference to the lives of others.  He devotes many hours of his personal time every week to activities such as mentoring, advising and supporting members of the community.

We are thrilled to welcome back Deng Adut to Joeys and hope you are able to join us.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Just a few updates regarding this weekend’s father/son camp.

1. The weather forecast is quite good and the weekend will definitely go ahead. Luckily we’ve missed the flooding down south and the damaging winds in other parts of the state today.

A summary of the local forecast:

Friday Partly cloudy. Min 11°C Max 21°C (“feels like” temperatures 8°C to 18°C). 40% chance of 0 to 3 mm rain in the morning, clearing by about 1 pm. Average wind speed 9 to 17 km/hr.

Saturday Partly cloudy. Min 9°C Max 24°C (“feels like” temperatures 7°C to 20°C). 0% chance of rain. Average wind speed 6 to 13 km/hr.

Sunday Partly cloudy. Min 10°C Max 20°C (“feels like” temperatures 6°C to 16°C). 20% chance of 0 to 0.4 mm rain in the morning. Average wind speed 11 to 17 km/hr.

 

2. Please take care on Upper Colo Road as you drive in. I’ve been advised that Newington cadets will be starting a camp on Saturday morning in the Colo Valley and 8 large coaches will be used to drop them off. You may be entering the valley as these coaches leave. Upper Colo Road is a narrow and windy country road with not a lot of room for a coach and car to pass one another, so it’s best if you’re driving slowly enough that you can pull stop right off to the side of the road.

 

3. We’re still looking for a number of volunteers to assist throughout the weekend with cooking, cleaning up etc. Nothing too stressful. In keeping with the other activities this weekend we ask that fathers and sons do the activities together. To sign up with your son for a volunteer position, please go here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090F4AA8AF23ABF58-joeys

 

4. Driving directions: Father Son information 2016

 

We look forward to seeing you at Colo.

Regards,

Mark Brackenreg and Mick Blair

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

The Joey’s Spring Fair is a great time to clean out a cupboard, drawer, garage or garden shed, even under your bed!

Your trash becomes another’s treasure = cash = assisting the purchase of school items = the education of our beautiful boys now and in the future.

There are many items that will sell well on the day and there are many items that will be thrown into the skip by 5 pm.

A successful White Elephant will depend on your wonderful and quality donations.  You may even assist by putting your items in a box ready for display and sale.

“Drop off” Room is the corner-room next to the UNIFORM SHOP and Second-hand Uniform Shop.  (This will be clearly marked on windows of room).

Please DO NOT drop off to school reception.  It is not the responsibility of the staff at reception to receive items or move them to the drop off location.

Listed below are items that will make a great stall:

• Kitchen alia, teapots, Tupperware, crystal, decanters, silverware, copperware
• Old tools and garden equipment; gnomes and garden ornaments, garden furniture
• Quality crockery and coloured glass
• Vintage – old clocks, crockery, Barbie dolls, train sets, books, caneware
• Quality second-hand clothes and shoes – hardly used please.
• Lego and children’s books, train sets, Barbie Dolls
• Toys and jigsaws (no soft toys)
• Unused wedding and birthday gifts
• New Books – Gardening, sport, biographies, auto biographies and special interests, novels (NO encyclopaedias, magazines or student text books)
• Small furniture pieces that can go in the boot of the car
• Home décor – quality pieces e.g. cushions, rugs, lamps,
• Vintage and quality new jewellery
• Art and vintage wall hangings, suit cases and old boxes
• Bikes, sporting equipment – cricket bats, small recreational equipment – skateboards, Pink elephants
• Musical equipment – guitars, violins, etc

Any queries should be directed to Peter Anderson email: peter@anderson.sydney or mobile 0412 281 133.

 Kind regards

Year 7 Parent Rep Group.

Learning Karate/practicing for a career acting in action films.